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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (8566)	6/29/2005 11:16:43 AM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 22250

More on Haim Yavin: "In his documentary, Yavin repeatedly shows Palestinians suffering at the hands of arrogant settlers and soldiers. In one scene, he filmed a crowded Israeli army roadblock, showing sick women and crying children waiting in the hot sun for hours. Israel set up the roadblocks at the outbreak of the current round of fighting in 2000, pointing to a need to prevent Palestinian suicide bombers and gunmen from reaching Israel. At one point, Yavin shifted the camera toward Israeli soldiers at the checkpoints to ask why they weren't letting the people through. "I look for danger in these people and I can't find it," Yavin said in the film. In another scene, settlers chased Palestinian olive pickers out of an orchard, accusing them of planning terror attacks. The scene ended with an elderly Palestinian woman asking the camera: "Is it forbidden for us to pick olives? Isn't it a sin not to let us pick?" Settlers were outraged over the documentary, which was broadcast by the private Channel Two, rather than by Yavin's station, Israel TV. Yavin said Israel TV declined to air the documentary, but said the decision was not motivated by politics. Fewer than a dozen settlers held a demonstration outside the offices of Israel's Broadcasting Authority, which oversees Israel TV. A leader of the Settlers' Council, Bentsi Lieberman, demanded Yavin's dismissal in a letter to the authority. "It is unacceptable that Haim Yavin will continue to anchor the news of the national station that professes to be objective," Lieberman wrote. news.findlaw.com